Tell The Children You're Sorry by Clyde Harrison

In just one generation the United States went from the world’s largest creditor to the world’s largest debtor.  Washington’s plan to cure the credit crisis is to borrow our way out of debt.  This fool hardy plan as been tried in the past by other countries. It has never worked. Though our current elected officials believe they are smarter and give better speeches, it won’t work this time either. Most of the people reading this have had a loan in the past, possibly a home or auto loan.  You know that when you add the interest, it takes a long time to pay off and may double the total cost.

The Congress, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury have borrowed over two trillion dollars this year for the stimulus, the bail outs and cash for clunkers.  How much is a trillion? One trillion is sixty three thousand miles of one dollar bills – a tremendous, colossal amount of money!  Our children will be paying the interest on this debt for the rest of their lives.  Our children will send more of their hard earned dollars to the government, leaving them less to spend improving their lives and the lives of their children.  We’re stealing their futures.

How can we halt this corrupt mismanagement of our country so our children have the better life we all hope for them? My suggestion to stop the madness is two new laws.

First New Law: Lawyers can’t hold any political office.

Lawyers are taught in law school, when there is a solution to a problem they stop getting paid.  Instead of solution based careers, like all the rest of us, lawyers are driven by a never ending supply of paper and endless proposals, but no solutions. Lawyers are the ones that gave us the few million word tax code that no one understands. Lawyers have given us big city schools that are dysfunctional day care centers. Graduating students who do not possess the knowledge to compete in today’s world labor market. Lawyers gave us mountains of regulations that cost a fortune to comply with and protect no one. All enforced by the FED, FDIC and the SEC who make Inspector Clouseau look like a genius. With their results to date, letting lawyers run the country would be Einstein’s definition of insanity.

Second New Law: Political Donations Must Be Anonymous.

If political donations were anonymous McCain-Feingold would be declared a colossal failure and that would be an understatement. This law would be designed to reduce the cost of pay to play or the price of buying a politician.

Politicians who appear on the news always say their donors do not give them money for special access, favors or laws to benefit the donor. They donate because they like the recipient’s policies. They don’t want special treatment. If they are both telling the truth, which only a fool believes, this wouldn’t change if the donations were anonymous.  If you didn’t know the source of the money there wouldn’t be any special favors. Pay to play would disappear

I believe if we adopted these two laws, in a very short period of time we would get off the road to bankruptcy and diminished futures for our children and get back on the road to America’s greatness.